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Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, Being Some Account of Historic Events on the Cape Fear River, Raleigh, N.C.

“Half of the book relates to CSA operations. Wilmington was last Confederate port closed during the war, so this volume is mine of information on blockade running and naval history about these strategic ports.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Cape Fear Nc, loc:Cape Fear River NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1914, su:civilian, su:economics, su:homefront, su:local history, su:observer, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, ts:narrative

Tales of the Cape Fear Blockade, Being a Turn of the Century Account of Blockade Running

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, he:Blockade of Cape Fear River, loc:Cape Fear River NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1960, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, ts:narrative

Memories of Slavery Days in Kentucky

Tags: au:male, era:antebellum, loc:Kentucky, pd:1973, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:narrative

Robert Ormsby Sweeny: Some Civil War Sketches

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, pd:1983, su:camp life, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:travel, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Old days in Nashville, Tenn.

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1897, su:homefront, su:local history, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:narrative

Catholicity in the Carolinas and Georgia: leaves of its history ... A.D. 1820 - A.D. 1878

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Columbia SC, loc:Georgia, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Savannah GA, loc:South Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1879, su:observer, su:religion, su:travel, ts:narrative

On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures During the War

“First published in 1892, ON THE PLANTATION is the most autobiographical of Harris's works and includes extensive examples of his renderings of the African American Geechee dialect.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Hillsborough Ga, pd:1919, su:child boy, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:narrative